>
> > It's another typical Walzer/Dissent swipe at anyone who is actually
>doing
> > anything,
>
>What, exactly, are the likes of Chomsky, Cockburn, and Said et al "doing"?
>I seem to remember Chomsky crying wolf about the humanitarian disaster that
>the US was attempting to quietly inflict on Afghanistan... and ignoring
>the
>fact that US intervention likely helped alleviate the famine alluded to, I
>can't recall Walzer saying anything half as stupid.
Chomsky et al have been out there swinging, organizing in the trenches, on the side of the angels, fighting US imperialism day in and day out for the entire period when Walzer has been pissing and moaning about them (and not blasting the bad guys) at the Institute in Princeton. Chomsky may have made a few bad calls, like his comments on the KR back in 1977-78, but that's the risk you take when you engage. As forAfghansitan, C has been right about it, and W's defense of this vile and evil war will be addedto the litany of his crimesw hen he is called before God's great judgment seat.
jks
>
> > he's been talking like this for thirty five years. just ignore it.
>
>Better yet, engage it.
>
> > Oddly enough, Walzer is excellent when it comes to giving rather
>abstract
> > pol;itical theory type arguments for democratic socialism. I commend
>Sphere
> > of Justice to all; one needn't agree with his communitarian perspective
>to
> > get a lot of good stuff from the book. But I can't recalla nything
> > approaching a practical interventionw hwere he didn't end up fatuously
>on
> > the wrong side.
>
>Well, in an essay on the cold war in Howe's Radical Papers he unequivocally
>came down as an anti-interventionist... whether that put him fatuously on
>the wrong side I don't know.
>
>-- Luke
> >
> > jks
> >
> >
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